Gripping device.



W. WERNER.

GRIPPING DBVIGEV APPLICATION FILED JULY 21,1913.

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UNITED STATES PATENT oFFioE.

WILLIAM WERNER, OF MILWAUKEE, WISCONSIN.

GRIPPI'NG DEVICE.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, WVILLIAM' W'ERNER, a citizen or the United States, and resident of Milwaukee, in the county of Milwaukee and State of Wisconsin, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Gripping Devices; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description thereof.

My invention consists in what is herein particularly set forth with reference to the accompanying drawings and pointed out in the claim of this specification, its object being to provide simple, economical and efficient devices principally designed for ready detachable connection with milk-pails to project thereform over the legs of milkers straddling the same, whereby the necessity of leg-gripping of said pails and constrained position on the part of said milkers may be avoided. Each of said devices is also applicable as a detachable handle for pots, pans, and other vessels.

Figure l of the drawings represents a sectional view of a fragment of a milk-pail having a device in accordance with my invention applied thereto, said device being partly in section on the plane indicated by line 11 in the next described illustration. Fig. 2 of the drawings represents a plan view of the aforesaid device partly in horizontal section.

Referring by letter to the drawings, 3 indicates a vertically disposed stationary jaw having a longitudinally slotted shank 4 integral therewith and at an approximate right-angle thereto. Pivotally hung in the shank4, at the junction thereof with the jaw 3, is the upper crank-end of another vertically disposed jaw 5 that opposes the one aforesaid, and a rear upper incline 6 of the pivotal jaw 5 opposes a cam end 7 of a horizontally disposed lifting lever fulcrumed in the outer end of said shank, the handle-end 8 of the lever being of suitable width and preferably rounded upon its under side. As shown in Fig. 1, the movable jaw 5 may be provided with a stop-shoulder 9 in the path of the cam-end of the lever. The pivot of the jaw 5, and the fulcrum of the lever are preferably pivot-screws 10, 11, respectively,

Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed July 21, 1913.

Patented Sept. 1, 1914.

Serial No. 780,412.

as shown in Fig. 2, to facilitate the substitution of a new jaw or lever for one that may become broken, the threaded end of each screw being engaged with a correspondingly tapped opening in a side of the shank 4 of the stationary jaw.

In practice, the wall of a milk-pail is straddled by the jaws aforesaid and the lever manipulated to effect a firm grip of said jaws upon said pail. A pair of the gripping devices are to be employed in connection with a milk-pail, diametrically opposite one another, and the handle-ends of their levers rest on the legs of a milker straddling the pail, whereby said pail is suitably positioned without effort or constraint on the part of said milker.

From the foregoing it will be understood that the handle ends of the gripping devices are lifted to cause their inner ends to cam downwardly against the opposing pivotal jaws, this being an important feature of my grippers particularly when a pair of the same are employed in connection with a milk-pail as described in the foregoing.-

A gripping device similar to the one herein shown and described may be readily applied to a pot, pan or other vessel to serve as a temporary handle for the same.

I claim:

The combination of a gripping-jaw having a longitudinally slotted shank integral therewith at an approximate right-angle thereto, another jaw having an upper rearwardly inclined crank-end pivotally hung in the said shank at the junction thereof with the first named jaw, and a lever pivotally suspended between its extremities in the outer end of the aforesaid shank to cam downward at one extremity against the incline of the crank-end of the pivoted jaw when its other extremity is lifted.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing I have hereunto set my hand at Milwaukee in the county of Milwaukee and State of 1s cousin in the presence of two witnesses.

WILLIAM WVEBNER.

Witnesses IDA BARTHEL, FRED BARTHEL.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents,

Washington, D. C. 

